Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Egypt and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Drexciya to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Oneida. All the underground hits.
All Gang of Four tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Laurel Aitken,
Average White Band,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Sonics,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Black Dice,
Unrelated Segments,
Jeff Lynne,
Brass Construction,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Searchers,
June of 44,
The Fugs,
Young Marble Giants,
The Smiths,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Second Layer,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Magazine,
Neu!,
Monolake,
The Slits,
Arab on Radar,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bizarre Inc.,
Kaleidoscope,
Charles Mingus,
Traffic Nightmare,
Mission of Burma,
Ultra Naté,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Throbbing Gristle,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lou Reed,
Nico,
Electric Prunes,
Pylon,
Matthew Halsall,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Radiohead,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Erykah Badu,
The Angels of Light,
Rotary Connection,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Juan Atkins,
Television,
Junior Murvin,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Grauzone,
Spandau Ballet,
Yusef Lateef,
The Smoke,
8 Eyed Spy,
Eli Mardock,
Tomorrow,
The Techniques,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.